failure. I'm not ready to die. Not like this. I continue to fight as I have been. I hope soon I can go home. I really hate it here at the hospital. The people are all really nice here but this place makes me think of pain and death. I have dialysis again tomorrow, but I'm not...

I'm 21 years old and I've had a terrible life and maybe like most people have wished for my life to end. I haven't actually attempted suicide or hurt myself, I've already been physically hurt too many times to want to do that anyway. But I never wanted a terminal illness, I don't...

I push it to the back of my mind. I don't want this. If I ignore it it will go away wont it???
Maybe the doctors have it all wrong?
What am I exactly supposed to do now?
Pulmonary fibrosis..... sounds harmless so why is it a killer?
I have a three year old... I want to...

(Multiple System Atrophy), almost nobody has ever heard of it. I am married and have 4 kids. I am 40 yo. The average ligespan is 7-9 years. I am in my fourth year and it is getting harder every day. patients with MSA start to loose the ability to move, and eventually talk...

i was diagnosed with a (then) non-operable brain tumor in 2001 and was told I had less than a 50% to survive the next 5 years. it's been 10 years now since the diagnosis and i should be happy to be alive, but i'm not. I've had at least 4 surgeries and radiotherapy and most...

illness that skips some generations in my family first guy to get it so god dam do I feel lucky. I'm 18 and I walk with a cane for gods sake and my body is just gonna decay and break until I can't walk or do anything myself but hey...I'm having a good hair day today so...things...

So I thought I'd take a long week to type it hereThe very slow process of my death is, exhausting to say the least.I tried to through myself a celebration party for passing my terimal date, I had to pay for everything lol and all these people I dont really know and invited ended...

and I did not have the heart to tell him I was unwell. First of all he is a blabber mouth and telling him would mean dozens of people I know would know and that would be a pain in the ***. Secondly I did not want to bum him out. He's had a rough spell that has recently turned...

I was a heavy drinker all my life. Now, I am terminal. I come from a family of heavy drinkers and my grandpa lived to be 92. The thought of cirrhosis never entered my mind. I recently had warning signs that something was wrong; my nose bled, bruises were all over my...

I was diagnosed yesterday with a disease expected to destroy my mind and be very painful in the end too. What fun!
It's weird the clarity this brings. Every moment counts even though the end is years away still for me, and I am not going down without a fight.
I started...